Many of the criticisms regarding this season's (over)use of Negan -- which started back in the season premiere and continued on in "Service" -- still hold firm here in "Sing Me a Song," a particularly Negan-heavy episode perched right before the midseason finale.

Clocking in at an hour and a half, with commercials, "Sing Me a Song" took us back to the Saviors compound for, basically, a repeat tour. With Carl now as our new set of eyes -- er, eye -- we watched more snark and goofy trolling from Negan, more speeches about rules, more people being punished for breaking of said rules, more of Daryl getting pushed around, more of Dwight's knowing glances to Shelly - just more of most everything we've already experienced enough of this season.